Not! For one thing, it's not Keats's temperate England, but the currently hot AND humid Chihuahuan Desert. And it's not autumn yet. The title line comes from Keats's lovely poem "To Autumn." But the fruits are beginning to ripen here in the desert, as this photo of the pears on a Prickly Pear Cactus will prove.
Close-up shot of the pears reddening on the pads of a Prickly Pear Cactus.
A Staghorn Cholla with its crop of yellow fruit.
Apparently this is a Staghorn rather than a Buckhorn cholla because there are only 7 to 10 spines per aerole. The Buckhorn Cholla has as many as 25 spines per areole.
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